News – Page 94
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NewsEnglish band 8 and 9 staff now paid 12pc less than Scottish peers
Band 8 and 9 staff are typically being paid at least 11-13 per cent more in Scotland than in England, after several recent Agenda for Change pay deals have resulted in the gap significantly widening for senior staff, it has emerged.
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NewsSupplier sues NHS Supply Chain for abandoning procurement
A UK-based manufacturer of personal protective equipment is suing NHS Supply Chain for abandoning its decision in late 2022 to award contracts to potentially supply millions of facemasks to acute and non-acute providers, after a ‘dramatic’ drop in demand.
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NewsCyber attack takes out two trusts’ records access
Two ambulance trusts have been left without a working electronic patient care record system for a week after a cyber attack affecting its Swedish-based supplier.
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NewsNHSE advertises 22 director roles
NHS England is advertising 22 national clinical director roles, including two newly created leadership roles, and 20 existing posts.
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NewsMinisters reject Hunt’s plans for general practice
Government has rejected several policy proposals to promote “continuity of care” in general practice which were put forward by Jeremy Hunt.
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NewsCQC to inspect first ICSs this summer
The Care Quality Commission has revealed the first two integrated care systems that it will inspect, as part of a pilot, this summer.
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NewsDigitising all trusts by 2025 ‘unachievable’ after £700m cut, government admits
NHS England’s target for all trusts to have a working electronic patient record system by March 2025 is now ‘unachievable’ and a new date has been set a year later, government has admitted.
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NewsManagers wrongly dismissed doctor with PTSD, tribunal rules
A trust breached its own internal illness policy when managers sacked a doctor who had PTSD and had been drunk at work, an employment tribunal has ruled.
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NewsNHS agency spent £7m on ‘irregular’ payments to external contractors
NHS Digital spent more than £7m on consultants and external contractors without ministerial authorisation, with the organisation’s leadership acknowledging the payments were ‘irregular’.
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NewsOnly one in five staff at care scandal trust confident in execs
Just one-fifth of staff at a trust engulfed in an abuse scandal expressed confidence in the executive team, according to the Care Quality Commission, which has downgraded the trust and its leadership team to ‘inadequate’.
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NewsTrust chiefs sacked ‘only in extreme circumstances’, says government
The government has admitted that many ‘vulnerable’ hospitals ‘suffer with a lack of permanence of leadership’, but said that chiefs are only sacked by NHS England ‘in extreme and exceptional circumstances’.
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NewsWorkforce plan will force ministers to spend more on the NHS, warns watchdog
The new NHS workforce plan is likely to force governments to give the service real terms funding increases beyond 3 per cent a year, the government’s budget watchdog has warned.
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NewsCEO named for new trust
A chief executive has been named for a new community and mental health trust in the south of England ahead of its planned formation next year.
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NewsRegulatory ‘burden’ has increased despite promises, say trust leaders
The majority of trust leaders have reported an increase in the ‘burden’ put on them by regulators, citing more demanding ‘ad hoc’ requests during heightened operational pressure.
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NewsCourage not targets needed to push ‘reticent’ NHS bosses to tackle racism
NHS leaders are still “reticent” to act decisively over racism and diversity problems and it will take courage rather than targets to tackle this challenge, a trust boss has warned.
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NewsModernisation Agency chief returns to lead improvement drive
The director of the Modernisation Agency in the early 2000s is returning to lead a new national service improvement drive, NHS England has announced, while asking systems and providers to “baseline” their improvement needs and capability.
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HSJ LocalService ‘collapses’ after department left with ‘no doctors’
A trust has been accused of presiding over the deterioration of a key service amid communication problems between senior leaders and a ‘worrying series of resignations’ which has left the department with ‘no doctors’.
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NewsSystem admits 10-year diagnostic waits
Adults across an integrated care system area are facing ‘unacceptable’ 10-year waits for an NHS assessment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, the longest known wait for such services in England.
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HSJ LocalJust one fifth of staff speak up in trust’s internal inquiry
Just one in five staff who were approached in a trust’s internal inquiry – prompted by an undercover broadcast raising serious care concerns – engaged with the process, a report has revealed.
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NewsNHSE threatened to remove FT’s governors in ‘highly regrettable’ row
NHS England London threatened to remove a foundation trust’s governors in a dispute about a new chair appointment, it has emerged.